Animal rights victory
Ritchie | 27.01.2004 20:40 | Animal Liberation | Cambridge
As many of you have already heard, Cambridge University has announced
that they are not going ahead with the proposed primate laboratories
at 307 Huntingdon Road. This is fantastic news down to the collective
power of the animal rights movement. So a big thank you to one and
all who took part in achieving this victory!
that they are not going ahead with the proposed primate laboratories
at 307 Huntingdon Road. This is fantastic news down to the collective
power of the animal rights movement. So a big thank you to one and
all who took part in achieving this victory!
Stunning victory for the animal rights movement.
As many of you have already heard, Cambridge University has announced
that they are not going ahead with the proposed primate laboratories
at 307 Huntingdon Road. This is fantastic news down to the collective
power of the animal rights movement. So a big thank you to one and
all who took part in achieving this victory!
Let there be no doubt about this, it was everyone who took part in
the grassroots campaign against it that won the final battle. The
university said that it was the cost of security that forced their
hand. To quote one of their spokespeople, “We are not able to build
and run Fort Knoxâ€.
But it was not just the spiralling of costs of the lab security (£24
million to £32 million). It was the threat, often put into action, of
constant protest at the entire University, and the negative impact we
were having on their donors worldwide. We hit them were they were
most vulnerable – their finances and left them with no choice.
SPEAC has always said that the government could say what they wanted,
but that if Cambridge University did not want to build these labs,
then they would not be built. Quite wonderfully, everyone who
contacted the University or took part in the demonstrations forced
their hands. They were warned what to expect if they took on the
animal rights movement, and they found out that we are people of our
word.
No doubt there will be future attempts to build labs elsewhere in the
country, but we will be there to fight them, tooth and nail. For now
though, celebrate that you helped stop thousands of primates of all
different species being taken from their homes and families in the
wild to suffer at the hands of sadistic and pointless science. We can
feel justly proud of our achievements, another in a long line of
animals abuse centres stopped in their tracks.
In the meantime an important message has been sent out to
universities across the United Kingdom not to get involved in such
research, for if mighty Cambridge can only put up a pathetic fight,
then they have no chance against us if we were to turn our attention
to them. Likewise, the scientists who wanted to abuse the primates
will have do some real research now using techniques which do not
torture loving, sentient creatures.
Again, thank you to all to took part.
We will be back!
Please feel free to forward this message on.
Stop Primate Experiments At Cambridge
============================================
For more details on Stop Primate Experiments At Cambridge contact
PO Box 6712, Northampton, NN2 6XR, United Kingdom
Email:
info@primateprison.org
Web: www.primateprison.org
Tel: +44 (0)845 330 7985
The information in this email is for the purpose of legal protest and information only. It should not be used to commit any criminal acts or harrassment; SPEAC does not encourage any illegal activities.
As many of you have already heard, Cambridge University has announced
that they are not going ahead with the proposed primate laboratories
at 307 Huntingdon Road. This is fantastic news down to the collective
power of the animal rights movement. So a big thank you to one and
all who took part in achieving this victory!
Let there be no doubt about this, it was everyone who took part in
the grassroots campaign against it that won the final battle. The
university said that it was the cost of security that forced their
hand. To quote one of their spokespeople, “We are not able to build
and run Fort Knoxâ€.
But it was not just the spiralling of costs of the lab security (£24
million to £32 million). It was the threat, often put into action, of
constant protest at the entire University, and the negative impact we
were having on their donors worldwide. We hit them were they were
most vulnerable – their finances and left them with no choice.
SPEAC has always said that the government could say what they wanted,
but that if Cambridge University did not want to build these labs,
then they would not be built. Quite wonderfully, everyone who
contacted the University or took part in the demonstrations forced
their hands. They were warned what to expect if they took on the
animal rights movement, and they found out that we are people of our
word.
No doubt there will be future attempts to build labs elsewhere in the
country, but we will be there to fight them, tooth and nail. For now
though, celebrate that you helped stop thousands of primates of all
different species being taken from their homes and families in the
wild to suffer at the hands of sadistic and pointless science. We can
feel justly proud of our achievements, another in a long line of
animals abuse centres stopped in their tracks.
In the meantime an important message has been sent out to
universities across the United Kingdom not to get involved in such
research, for if mighty Cambridge can only put up a pathetic fight,
then they have no chance against us if we were to turn our attention
to them. Likewise, the scientists who wanted to abuse the primates
will have do some real research now using techniques which do not
torture loving, sentient creatures.
Again, thank you to all to took part.
We will be back!
Please feel free to forward this message on.
Stop Primate Experiments At Cambridge
============================================
For more details on Stop Primate Experiments At Cambridge contact
PO Box 6712, Northampton, NN2 6XR, United Kingdom
Email:
info@primateprison.org Web: www.primateprison.org
Tel: +44 (0)845 330 7985
The information in this email is for the purpose of legal protest and information only. It should not be used to commit any criminal acts or harrassment; SPEAC does not encourage any illegal activities.
Ritchie
Homepage:
http://www.primateprison.org
Comments
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Great!
27.01.2004 20:56
Why is it that animal rights activists put such a diproportionate amount of effort in to fighting medical research, when, of all the industries that exploit animals, this involves the least number of animals and the least overall suffering and provides by far the greatest benefit for society through advances in clinical and vetinary medicine. Compare this to the intensive farming industry which on a weekly basis involves ecessive suffering to millions of animals simply to satisfy the nation's taste for flesh.
What benefits to society come from keeping millions of creatures in darkened cages for their entire lives so that they can be eaten?
steve
They got what they deserved
27.01.2004 22:19
Viva la revolution!
ARCrew
thanks
27.01.2004 23:01
steve
steven, steven, ... whoever you are
27.01.2004 23:42
You've posted the same negative crap elsewhere on IMC today. Check your posts.
Ok, your correct about intensive farming killing millions more animals than those dying in the labs which is why most AR people are vegan/vegetarian so as not to contribute to or demand the continuation of suffering on such a scale (or any scale) as that which the farming industry deals out to the innocent. Animal lib people are constantly trying to change the publics mind where flesh and dairy consumption are concerned, through demos and information distribution.
You seem to be pro vivisection whilst anti-meat eating - intensive farming? We don't get it?? Does your compassion not span the scale of all animal suffering? Or do your 'tactics' just seek a diversion from our victory? Something has rattled your cage ... Do you actually feel ok steven?
Anyway, just be happy that thousands of primates are not going to die pointlessly, suffering disgusting brain research into diseases they do not naturally suffer from in their own lifetimes and also, that thousands of humans will not be dying from taking those drugs that the vivisectors have given the ok to (for their own profit gain) even though the primate brain and the homosapien brain are still so very different.
Respect all life steven, and it may respect you.
ARCrew
congrats
28.01.2004 00:32
Inspiring, to me, because it shows that even the most seemingly large and powerful institutions CAN be defeated.
Thank you. Having just recently come out of an action that ended disappointingly and felt like a defeat, you have lifted my spirits a little :)
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one track minds
28.01.2004 08:21
steve
name one
28.01.2004 13:15
It is not as simple as going and demonstrating outside a pork farm. If you close a pork farm, another will open or expand. What need's changing is the people's outlook of meat.
Going on a demonstration against a proposed primate lab shows the anger that people feel that such an evil plan was made. This does have an effect.
I feel that i know who you are steve. You are just like any other apologetic vivisectionist. Vivisection is not needed. You have obviously not been reading the background to SPEAC's arguments.
This is a great day!
fredrico
e-mail:
musteatvegan@yahoo.co.uk
Steve
28.01.2004 14:18
) It's just that the anti-vivisection groups get more press coverage!
Ron
Choosing targets
29.01.2004 14:30
The joke of people like Steve is that these people never do anything to change the world they just criticise others.
For liberation,
Ritchie
Ritchie
Ray Greek and vivisection
30.01.2004 10:04
Actually, Ray Greek's argument is not that simple. The main thrust of Ray's argument is that results on animals cannot be extrapolated directly to humans because of the mydiad difffernces at the cellular and molecular level. Animals therefore cannot be relied upon to test drugs, toxins or treatments for disease.
However, Ray admits that animals can be used to understand basic biological processes and these can be extrapolated to any biological system. Vivisection experiments may in this way have contributed towards discoveries that eventually benefited humans.
Even when simply considering animals used for basic research, it does not follow logically that because discovery was helped by animal experimentation, that vivisection was essential to the discovery. The same discovery may have been made through less intrusive experiments, or the same funding could have saved more lives if used in a different way. I have provided examples and a more detailed explanation of this argument in a conference paper I wrote for a vivisectors' conference in Christchurch
Michael
Homepage:
http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~nezumi1